Merry Christmas!!

milk and cookies, originally uploaded by briemarie.

Hopefully everyone got what they wanted for Christmas! It is gorgeous outside, the sun is shining down on the blanket of snow and it looks like a beautiful day. Of course, I'm at work, but I hope that everyone else gets to spend the day with family and friends having a wonderful time!

Santa must not have gotten my note about the new camera, but we got a new surround system which Rob is most likely putting together as I type, I'll find out when I get home later. We gave our parents the coolest present ever, though. Now, getting both sets together was a disaster, but my mom showed up to Rob's parents at ten last night after she sung at the late church service. We hand them their matching presesnts, Kay got hers open first, she pulls out the pacifier and is looking at it and then looking at us. My mom freaks out because she hasn't even gotten the wrapping paper off yet, and then rips open the box, throwing the contents all over the couch. It was hilarious! I really wish we had a video camera for that.

So, the cat's out of the bag, we are going to have a baby sometime in July/August. Rob is so excited, I'm sure he'll pop, and we've been keeping this a secret for the last month since Kay has been down in Tennessee and I made him not tell anyone, not even our friends. Can you imagine how hard that secret was?

All right, enough about us, I want to know what everyone else got for Christmas! Leave me a comment, let me know what you were hoping for and what you got.

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Happy Holidays!!

Freckle's elf phase, originally uploaded by briemarie.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope with the deluge of snow we have received that everyone is still doing great. I love the way that the snow makes the world look brand new, but I really hate to drive in it, thank goodness that both Rob and I drive four wheel drive vehicles, I'm not sure that I would be getting to work without it somedays, or making it home as the case may be.

I hope that everyone gets to spend the holidays with the ones that they love, keep them close and give them a hug, even if you'll see them tomorrow. Let's spread the love.

Merry Christmas.

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Christmas tea

christmas tea, originally uploaded by briemarie.

While Kay is gone, Amanda and I took miss Cheyanne out to Christmas tea, she was a little disappointed that it was only orange banana juice instead of tea (we're pretty sure she was thinking sweet tea), but we did have some fun. Cheyanne played with the other little girls while Amanda and I made up our own little snowlady decorations and munched on gingerbread cookies, yummy!

On another Christmas note, Rob got us a real tree! We haven't had a real tree the entire time we've lived together, we have this tiny three foot tree that we set up, but this year, oh our house smells so good! I just don't have enough ornaments for it, it nearly touches our ceiling! Maybe I'll post some pictures, then you can see that Cheyanne helped me to decorate, ha!

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{more} miss e

miss e, originally uploaded by briemarie.

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{real life} miss e - baraboo

miss e, originally uploaded by briemarie.

On friday I had the absolute pleasure of having Tori bring little miss Ella up for her four month old picures! What a doll, she smiled and talked, and I, of course, took a ton of shots that I have to weed down. I love her big bow, is that not the coolest thing? I'm totally going to have to buy some of my own for props.

Tori and her mom were awesome, and little miss Ella was fabulous, if only all babies were like her. Take a look at those gorgeous blue eyes, I say that they look like Tori's, but who knows. So, here goes a little teaser of the cutest little girl, seriously, I totally wanted to keep her, such a good baby. She was talking and blowing bubbles, I absolutely loved it!

Thanks Tori for making my day, and week, and maybe even the whole month of December awesome!!

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